The problem with Jones is that Morris has better forward's instincts.
I suppose it's easy to write throwaway lines without supporting facts.
In 2011, Jones had 43 contested marks in 20 games, when we won only 9 games.
Yes, we had Hall, but in the 6 games that year that Hall didn't play, Jones took 14 cms, on par with his average for the year.
Here's a breakdown from that year, as an example:
Player/club/contested marks/games played/games won by club
Tippett/Adel/41/18/7
Cloke/Coll/95/25/20
Fyfe/Frem/43/21/9
Taylor/Geel/38/24/19
Pods/Geel/57/23/19
Hawkins/Geel/42/18/19
Franklin/Hawt/39/22/18
Hale/Hawt/35/20/18
Petrie/North/49/21/10
Riewoldt/Rich/41/22/8.5
McEvoy/StK/51/22/12.5
Riewoldt/StK/28/22/12/5
Goodes/Syd/44/24/12.5
Reid/45/23/12.5
Cox/WCE/42/25/17
Lynch/WCE/40/24/17
Darling/WCE/51/23/17
Hall/WB/19/15/9
Jones/WB/43/20/9
Gia/WB/19/20/9
Hall, Gia and N.Riewoldt were well down the list, but I've added them for context.
Gee, Jones got really lucky that year, 43 times, in spite of his supposed lack of forward instincts.
And seeing he outperformed Hawkins, Franklin and Lynch, when they all had Pods, Roughead and Darling alongisde them in virtually every game, and were in top 4 sides, they mustn't have much forward instincts either.
This year, he took 35 in 19 games, when we won only 7, and of those 31 were in games where Campbell did not play and he had no other genuine key forward as support.
For comparison, Roughead at fullback this year was next best with 33, then Addison was third with 16 (Minson had 15).
For further comparison, when Chris Grant started out in his first 4-5 seasons, he had Glenn Coleman, Danny Delre, occasionally Adrian Campbell and Jon Ballantyne, and later Ilija Grgic as fellow talls.
But yeah, I'm sure if Morris was moved to the forward line he'd get better figures than those, because he's not, you know, Liam Jones.